VectorCat
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OK..well the reasoning sounds great but the actual performance seems to be consulting something else..
The images I'm placing are 72 dpi, my AD document is 72dpi. Yet when I place the 72 dpi image, AD measures the placed image as *much* larger.
I have to admit that I am stumped. Might there be something else at work in this?
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When I place an image 570 px wide into AD, the resulting placed object is 760px wide!
Why would this be? I did not scale the object; merely placed it.
And let me be very clear about my exact steps....
With an AD document open..one which I've been using in my workflow, one not set up for retina images, I placed an image whose width in pixels is 570. I only placed the image; I did not scale, skew, distort or in anyway modify its size, aspect ratio, or any other attribute.
Thank you!
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Can you upload the AD file or the PDF?
Mike
OK..I am not seeing a tool to enable me to do that..
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for best results is there something that you do while still in AI?
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Not possible to remove just the crop layer. If I select it, the parent also becomes selected. Delete the crop, delete all children with it.
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I think they might be; in the big group that contains all the little objects, there's a crop tool icon. un-checking that does enable the node tool to even be able to access things at the object level and in wireframe view.
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I have a PDF of an illustration originally created in Adobe Illustrator.
I have successfully opened this PDF in AD 1.5.4
I seem only to be able to select objects when I am in Outline mode, and when direct-selecting using the Node tool.
Is this correct behavor? Is there a way to interact with objects normally when they are in a PDF opened up by AD?
Thank you
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We would only make a Linux version if we were confident we would recoup the $500,000 it would cost us to build it.
And how would you gauge that? You'd have to see serious inquiries for it?
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Is this on the list maybe?
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If you post a file that shows the problem then that will help us give feedback. If the object is more than 1/8 pixel over the boundary then I would expect the export slice to be bigger.
if an object is more than an integer number of pixels X and Y, then I would also expect AD to size up each dimension to the next nearest whole pixel size.
However, such is not the case with my objects. They are all whole-pixel sizes ( I typed the dimension into the transform palette when I created them) and AD is set to snap to pixel.
It'd be real nice if that's all that's required. ;-)
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the largest object in my groups in question had no strokes; no child item extends beyond the bounding area of the containing parent.
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One thing I just learned is that Affinity will not necessarily show truth in positioning.
Meaning: Transform palette will show that an object falls on a whole pixel, but the object isn't necessarily ON that whole pixel.
Suggestion: Make AD show accurate information: If I'm not on a whole pixel, show this to me!
I have snap to pixel activated..seems that isn't quite enough, which makes for a workflow fraught with uncertainty and tedium.
Please make this better!
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I am just not understanding why, when it comes to creating a slice for export, that AD adds a pixel to one or both dimensions?
I am extremely careful...meticulous in my work, to ensure that my items conform to pixel dimensions, yet, when I get to the create slice stage, there's an extra pixel that gets thrown in!
Is AD doing something, perhaps according to design, but which could be brought inline with human needs?
I have an item that's 400px x 400px and if I make a slice from that object, the slice ought to be be 400px x 400px, not 401px x 400px.
Any insights?
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It's not clear to me how AD's object-selection model works.
Sometimes, when I click on a grouped object, only a child object becomes active. Yet, when I try to click on child objects within groups, often it's their parent which becomes active.
Yipes!
What's the answer to selecting the items you're after, whether they're in groups or not?
I'm actually finding this to be a crippling, work-stopping issue. I simply can NOT select the items I desire to select no matter tools I use or clicking directly on said item in the layers panel.
Thank you,
vcat
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Are you working with artboards?
Can you attach the file here or upload it using this link so i can take a look please?
All files will be deleted after being checked.
Thanks.
Just uploaded it, MEB.. Thank you!
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Are you working with artboards?
Can you attach the file here or upload it using this link so i can take a look please?
All files will be deleted after being checked.
Thanks.
Sure...doing it now..
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Whatever the cause is, it is destroying the elegant work flow that AD or this document had had. I am extremely methodical in my work, and I take great pains to ensure my sizes and positioning. I have no hint of why this used to work but now does not. I need to take the images exported from AD, then fix their sizes in Pixelmator!
Can someone explain to me please why my integer-sized items positioned on integer pixel coordinates have different sizes upon slicing? This thing is a torpedo!
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Hi VectorCat,
Check if the group/children's X,Y coordinates are whole pixel values (integers).
Yes. They are all on whole pixel coordinates: both the child objects, and the group they're in.
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My object is a group. The group and it's children are all same size: 570 x 398 px and each aligned to the grid on whole pixels.
When I create slice in export, the dims are 571 x 399. How can I get the dims I want, IOW, 570 x 398?
Thank you!
cat
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Sweet! Good to know.
Thank you!
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Is there a way to preview what the result will be like when selecting export options?
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I can hide them, but if I try to "tear" one off, instead the whole thing moves as one unit.
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The computer I'm on now is a Mac Book Pro with a 23" external serving as the "main" monitor; the MBPro own display, I like to use for tool palettes.
Just now, dragging a compound palette — layers, colors, stroke and several others — from the larger to the smaller monitor, the palette made itself much smaller, names went to single letters. I can't get it back to the way it was!
I assume that this is meant to be a helpful feature..How can I get things back to the way I need them to be?
Thank you!
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I like that pressing the X key will toggle back and forth between fill and stroke, but is there a keystroke that will swap the two on a selected object?
thank you!
Affinity Designer files > iPad?
in Pre-V2 Archive of Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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What do AD users do when they want to work on their files on an iPad? Export to some lingua franca format? Any apps in particular until AD for iOS is ready?
I found Bez, which looks very good, but it isn't AD..
Thank you for any thoughts